Little Miss Wanderlust

...I'll be back in HK for some foodtripping, a lot of shopping and more picture-taking... as in NOW! =p I miss miss miss the place already. The malls, the food (yes, even the fastfood), the feel of being on vacation.... I shall plan for my next (budget) trip ASAP. The temptation of wanderlust is way too strong again. CARPE DIEM! I'm out.

Yesterday after months of actually trying my best not to buy anything, I finally gave in. I felt I deserve a little bit of shopping. So I bought myself a toner and conditioner at Lush and several accessories around Greenbelt too. I must say, I really did miss the rush that shopping brings. Plus I have yet to find the dress I'll be wearing at my Ate's wedding. This made me reminisce back on the last time I actually did some decent shopping. And it was in HongKong! :D If budget and geography weren't an issue. I would be raiding this place like crazy every week. Oh wait.. make that everyday, as long as they have new stuff. :) So I've heard that SM (Yes, that's Mr. Henry Sy) will be the one to bring H&M here. Is this true? Hmmmm.. well, as long as the clothes won't be THAT expensive then I guess I'm okay with it. But there's something about it being readily accessible that lessens the excitement of shopping. Oh well, let's wait and see. :) CARPE DIE...

We were finally there... The Peak! First stop... the Tram of course.. Up up up we went. :) When we got to the actual "peak", the first thing I noticed when we entered the store was how colorful everything seems to be. The designs/paintings on the walls... Colorful bracelets... Colorful shoes... And really neat and colorful hats.. We found really neat Buddha figurines too. I was afraid to touch and break them. And guess what.. we found Bruce Lee (again!) After all the picture posing again, we all realized we were really hungry already. So we scanned available restos.. and guess where we ended up... We were frowning because we were really hungry already. =P Haha! What I love about Bubba Gump HongKong is that their staff were really cool and the diversity of the staff's lineage is amazing. We were ushered in by Chinese waitresses, orders where taken by an Indian waiter, survey form was given by a Pinoy waiter and the manager is American (I think). Really neat! Plus.. food se...

Day 2... Itinerary for the day was to go to Victoria's Peak then Ocean Park after. According to good old wiki -> Victoria Peak ( traditional Chinese : 太平山, or previously- 扯旗山) is a mountain in Hong Kong . It is also known as Mount Austin , and locally as The Peak . The mountain is located in the western half of Hong Kong Island . With an altitude of 552 m (1,810 ft), it is the highest mountain on the island proper, but not in the entirety of Hong Kong We started the day early and the group (together with Kai's Ninang) opted to take a leisurely (leisurely nga ba? :P) walk on our way there. We got to pass by HongKong Park, where people were jogging, strolling and just taking their time sitting at the really nice benches. Such a different sight to see when you're in HongKong coz everything seems to be really fast-paced there. And I love love the colorful flowers and really neat set-up. I could spend the rest of the morning there just emoting.. Haha! :P One more thing I lo...

The evening of Day 1 was spent watching the Symphony of Lights, walking at the Avenue of Stars to look for our favorite Chinese artists and eating cuttlefish. :) The light show was really neat! Nice nice colors. Sobrang ang dilim pala tlaga dito sa Manila. Tsktsk.... Anyways, we found them!!! I found Bruce Lee.. Arvic found Jackie Chan... I found my own Jackie too.... Haha! And of course, my favorite! Jet Li!!!! We almost didn't find him because a stall almost covered his name up already. Tsktsk. They really should move that stall. Yes, I will be overloading you with moooooore pics. :P Walked some more and was ready to go home already.. then.. we found Bruce Lee again. We were really hungry already because of too much walking. Then there was a stall selling cuttlefish and it really smelled delicious so we bought ourselves some.. It was good when it was still hot.. but then turned out rubbery when it started to get cold already. Good thing I just shared 1 order with Arvic. I made hi...

Off we went to ride the Cable Car... The view was nice... Thank God I'm not that afraid of heights. We got our first glimpse of the Buddha midway into our Cable Car Ride.. Go find the Buddha. :P We got pretty excited about it already... then we finally got to Ngong Ping. Of course.. there were a lot of picture taking again. We even saw the The Bodhi Tree aka. "The Tree of Awakening". And Arvic's "modeling instincts" made him pose away. (We weren't sure though if it was indeed the actual Bodhi Tree. Hahaha!) The guide (the guy in red by the theater door in the pic above) approached Arvic afterwards, I honestly thought he was going to scold us for the poses made at the tree... To our amusement he said to Arvic "You can be the next top model." Funny! =) We continued walking until we were close to the Buddha. It was starting to get hot and we were tired too so this was the closest we could get to it. Waterbreak and IceCream break afterwards. Rode t...